Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-05-06

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leaders are wary, fanatical, puritanica
7 and determined to succeed. Their watch
word is, the Icorkscrew of the devil, auC
in this sign they expect to conquer al
Texas and all civilizatiou.-T San Antonio
Light (RepublIcan).
! Our portion of the state is well adapted
to grape culture, and most of our lands
ought now to be in vineyards. Grapes
are to this part of Texas what cotton is
to Georgia, hemp to Kentucky, corn to
Illinois, and tobacco 10 Virginia What
do our "Prohibs" propose to do about
this industry? Do they think God made
a mistake in endowIng our soil with such
adaptedness for g speciality! Will they
attempt To amend His mistakes by legis-
lation? Natural laws are CT as binding
force as revealed laws Emory Consti
tuition.
Will any one explain in what consists
the crime in drinking q glass of wine or
beer, any more than there is in drinking
q glass of cider or lemonade None of
them are essential or necessary to mans
existence. All of them are, in a sense,
Injuries. So far as any one knows any
one of them is as beneficial as the others;
If any difference, it is IN favor of wines.
A person could kill himself by an
excessive use of either. It, perhaps.
might take a less quantity of wine or
beer to injure man than it would require
of cider or lemonade. But it also takes
less quantity of certain drugs to destroy
| life than it does of others, but it does
not argue that the more potent drug is
not as useful and necessary as
the other. The expense of the TEN.
perate use Of wine or beer is not more
than that of cider or lemonade, and even
! if it were, man has right to govern
| his own expense in the matter. II state
can dictate to a man the amount of his
| expenses lie Injuries, il can in the neces-
saries Of life also. In fact, it would be
| impossible to determine where articles Of
necessity and those of superfuity begin.
So then the crime cannot be in the injury
| or expense attending the temperate use of
Intoxicating liquors. If any one mans
taste prefers wine or beer to cider or
lemonade, it is no other mans business
to restrain him in indulging this taste any
more than any other taste.
1t is clearly plain that the crime, if crime
there be, is not in the use of these arti-
CIes as beverages but in the abuses of
them. Then reason, common sense and
justice would say, punish the man that
abuses them but do not punish the man
that commits no crime in the use of them.
But this amendment proposes not only to
prevent men from abusing Intoxicating
liquors but from temperate use of all OF
them. The whole sum and substance of the
amendment is that hereafter no man shalt
use intoxicating liquors as g beverage.
lint
itself shows that such Will be the effect
of its enforcement if carried. But if the
amendment read that hereafter no mao
in this state shall use intoxicating liquors
as q beverage, it would receive no sup
port but from g few puritanical Pharisees
that have 8 strange habit of looking after
other peoples business and habits more
than they do their own, and thanking God
that they are not as other men are, for
which fact other men ought to thank God
they are not like them-TWiIl Point
Chronicle.
Here is an article in our Penal Code
that interferes with personal liberty:
Art. 326. If any white person and negro |
shall knowingly inter marry with each |
other within this state, or having so inter |
married, in or out of the state, shall con-
tinue to live together as man and wife |
within this state, they shall be punished !
by confinement in the penitentiary for |
term not less than two nor more than |
five years.
The Sun would ike for Mr.. Gibbs or |
any other anti-prOhbitionist to say whe- |
Their he is in favor Of repeating the above |
article. It certainly interferes with per |
son8l liberty, and that is the shibboleth of |
the ant. prohibitionists. They are at lib |
erty to take either horn of the dilemma
[ Georgetown Sun.
The liquor speakers and voters argue
that business prosperity depends on the
amount of liquor sold. They also argue
that there is more liquor sold under pro-
hibitOn than without it. Then they turn
around and argue that prohibition ruins
business! To Democrats they say prohi-
bition viii break up the Democratic
party. To Republicans they say prohibit
ton will break up the Republican
party. To prohibitlonists they say it will
ruin the temperance cause and set it
back fifty years. They tell the colored
people that prohibition is an attempt to
put them back into slavery. If it Was a i
move how could it be on at
tempt to put the colOred people back into
slavery? Because the Republican party
gave the colored man his liberty. They
say it will drive the whisky business out
Of the saloons into the drug stores, and in
the next breath say man won't be al
lowed to buy little blackberry wine for
colo drops for the baby. They say it in
fnnges on the personal liberty OF the
citizen, and in the next breath say that
the citizen will drink more liquor with
prohibition than without it. They
say this is religious war. YET theirs
g the only side that discusses religion at
Ill in connection with prohibition They :
say that prohibition is an attempt to !
mite church and state, yet when any rem
egade preacher sails in to help them keep
whisky and state united they cackle like
| pulIet that has laid her first egg. The ,
10 Tor advocates are all things to all men +
md never make any one argument but ,
What disproVes some other arguments. 4
such is the weakness of the True Blue y
,ause.-[ Waco Advance.
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We do not wish to be misunderstood;
We again assert that we have nothing to o
az against men who are selling whisky,
II anybody else for pursuing lawful a
BUSINESS. We have many warm personal <
riends who are selling whisky. We assert a
hat, according to number, they have as A
many big hearted, generous and charitable q
zen among them ss any class of men, and a
re candidly believe they are just as a
onest as any other class of men. 1t is the q
rs file they are engaged in and not the a
len that we are opposed to- Overton 8
narp-Shooter.
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The prohibition campaign is being con- B
ucted without any personal feeling what I;